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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Anna Gillingham
Sight Words
V-e
Macron
2. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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3. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Raw score
WRAT
Joe Torgesen
IEP
4. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
MSL
Mathew Effect
Cognition
5. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Analytic
Mastery level
Visual Processing
Achievement test
6. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Phonics
IMSLEC
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Quadrigraph
7. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Receptive language
SBOE
Sound Symbol Association
8. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Macron
Grapheme
Chall's Stage 0
9. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Auditory Learners
Old English
Curriculum referenced tests
Stanine Scores
10. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Expressive language
ALTA
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Components of Reading Instruction
11. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Texas Education Code 38.003
James Hinshelwood
RTI
12. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Percentile/ percentile rank
Texas Education Code 38.003
VC
Morpheme
13. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Simultaneous teaching
Progress Monitoring
14. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Expressive language
IMSLEC
Accommodation
15. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Syntax
Texas Education Code 38.003
Macron
Cognition
16. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Vowel
Closed Syllable
Orthography
Towre
17. Multisensory Structured Language
Accent
Mathew Effect
MSL
Anglo Saxon
18. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Dyslexia
Accent
Mastery level
19. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Mathew Effect
ADHD
Phoneme
Composite Score
20. Academic Language Therapy Association
Syntax
Pre-English
ALTA
Raw score
21. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Funding
Accommodation
IDEA
Sound Symbol Association
22. r-controlled syllable
Vr
Phonology
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Academic Achievement Tests
23. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reading Comprehension Support
Standard Scores
Norm-referenced tests
James Hinshelwood
24. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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25. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Joe Torgesen
Impulsivity
Rate
Criterion referenced tests
26. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Raw score
Pre-English
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Achievement test
27. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Vowel Digraph
Accommodation
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Vowel
28. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Open Syllable
Cedilla
Matthew Effect
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
29. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Digraph
Achievement test
Morphology
Percentile
30. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Morphology
IMSLEC
Six basic types of syllables
31. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Syntax
Diagnostic tests
Oral Language
32. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Academic Achievement Tests
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Universal Screening
Simultaneous teaching
33. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Auditory Processing
Multi-Sensory Approach
Grade equivalents
Letter naming Chart
34. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Criterion referenced tests
Prefix
GORT
Texas Education Code 38.003
35. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Standard Scores
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
36. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Syntax
Diagnostic tests
Syllable
Morpheme
37. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Auditory Learners
Phonemic/ decodable words
Macron
38. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Grade equivalents
Base Word
Quadrigraph
39. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Cognitive Assessment
Phoneme
Syntax
Derivative
40. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Accuracy
Criterion-Referenced Test
Components of Reading Instruction
41. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Accent
Morphology
Combination
42. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Keith Stanovich
Age equivalent
Affix
Texas Education Code 28.06
43. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Phonology
Top-down Reading Approach
Profile
The Norman Conquest
44. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Anna Gillingham
Matthew Effect
Dyslexia
SBOE
45. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Derivative
Chall's Stage 4
Syllable Instruction
46. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Whole Language
Accommodation
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Phonics
47. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Top-down Reading Approach
Anglo Saxon
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Diphthong
48. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
Standard score
Chall's Stage 4
Diphthong
49. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Standard Scores
Orthography
Chall's Stage 3
Components of Reading Instruction
50. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Anna Gillingham
Phonics approach
Raw score
Base Word